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There is no seed for /dev/random, as it intended to be 100% true random. Seeding is for pseudorandom number generators.

You can seed /dev/random. In a sense, it is actually seeded by environmental noises. Using a hardware generator can be used to get the required entropy faster, especially early after boot, even more so on predictably functioning machines.